Databases
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JSTOR JSTOR contains fulltext academic journals in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences. JSTOR provides complete journal backruns from the
date of initial publication up to a date defined, on a publisher by publisher
basis, by a "moving wall". The moving wall is a fixed period of time ranging, in
most cases, from 2 to 5 years, that defines the gap between the most recently
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Historical Abstracts with Full Text Historical Abstracts with Full Text covers world history from 1450 to the present, excluding the United States and Canada. Coverage is very broad and takes in many areas including: religion, anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, political science, the arts, law, education and geneology. Published since 1954.
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Berg Fashion Library Offers fully cross-searchable access to a range of Berg content collections, including the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion online, e-books, reference works, images,etc.
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Design & Applied Arts Index (DAII) A leading source of abstracts and bibliographic records for articles, news items, and reviews published in Design and Applied Arts periodicals from 1973 onwards. Topics include ceramics, glass, jewellery, wood, metalsmithing, graphic design, fashion and clothing, textiles, furniture, interior design, architecture, computer aided design, Web design, computer-generated graphics, animation, product design, industrial design, garden design, and landscape architecture.
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Sociological Abstracts Sociological Abstracts (1952 to the present) provides access to the
world's literature in sociology and related disciplines, including social
welfare, social planning, social policy and development. It covers articles from
over 2,000 journals, conference papers, dissertations, book reviews and selected
sociology books. It covers both the theoretical and applied aspects of sociology. -
Art Full Text Also known as: | Art Abstracts | Art Index | Provides comprehensive indexing of international art publications, including English-language periodicals, yearbooks and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Dutch, and Swedish. Subjects areas indexed include art, architecture, design, film, archaeology and marketing.
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Anthropology Plus This database includes the contents of Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index from the Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. It provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies.
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World Textiles Access to this database ended on December 31, 2020, due to budget cuts
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American History, 1493-1945 Documents American History from the earliest settlers to the mid-twentieth century. It is sourced from the Gilder Lehrman Collection.
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Web of Science Core Collection Web Of Science Core Collection includes Citation Indexes for Arts & Humanities, Sciences, Social Sciences
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Business Source Complete Provides full text for a large collection of business journals and peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. Indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals (back to 1886 or the first issue published for that journal) are included.
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Project Muse Project Muse: Online Journals from Johns Hopkins University Press provides full text access to journals in literary theory, classics, history and cultural studies, philosophy, film, theatre and performing arts, political science, and mathematics.
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Bloomsbury Design Library Explore by various design disciplines, period, people, place, schools, movements and styles.
Image databases
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ARTstor The ARTstor Digital Library is a collection of digital images of art, architecture and design from a number of books (notably art history survey texts), museums, archives, and slide collections.
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